Journal Issue
Cecil Kyle’s 5-poem run, from My Nirvana to Entreaty, gives this issue its clearest formal center. Most of the 13 poems are compact, but their free-verse lines vary the pace through clipped statements, longer syntactic runs, and small sequences that let one voice change pressure across several pages. What stands out is those changes of scale, as a single image is often answered by a more extended poem on the next leaf. Around that sequence, Enjoy the Other Emphasis as Well and Postage Meter widen the issue’s range without breaking its measured, poem-by-poem concentration.
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- Enjoy the Other Emphasis as Well [Poem]
- Air — Leah Bodine Drake [Poem, p. 3]
- My Nirvana — Cecil Kyle [Poem, p. 4]
- Interval — Cecil Kyle [Poem, p. 5]
- Death of Sappho — Cecil Kyle [Poem, p. 6]
- Girl from the Hill Country — Cecil Kyle [Poem, p. 7]
- Entreaty — Cecil Kyle [Poem, p. 8]
- The Generations — M. A. Mays [Poem, p. 10]
- Factory Town — M. A. Mays [Poem, p. 11]
- Cattle Country — Ethel Fairfield White [Poem, p. 12]
- Summer Afternoons — Marcia Masters [Poem, p. 13]
- Only Way Out — Emily Pausch [Poem, p. 14]
- Postage Meter — Hanson Kellogg [Poem, p. 16]
- Contributors [Contributor notes, p. 17]
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Copyright 1954
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The issue bears a 1954 copyright notice; rights in individual contributions and the compilation have not been fully resolved.
*Variegation*, vol. IX, no. 33, Winter 1954. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.